Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork is a Los Angeles–based artist whose installations use sculpture and acoustics to explore how sound shapes bodily experience and social relations. For the Triennial, she presents a monumental, site-specific "breathing" inflatable sculpture atop PSU’s Schnitzer School of Art building. Modeled after a mid-century Japanese garden lantern from her own family history, the work meditates on cultural transmission and the idea of authenticity. Accompanied by a sound piece composed with Portland musician Liz Harris (aka Grouper), the inflatable oscillates between animation and collapse, challenging perceptions of permanence and the circulation of personal history in public space.